Retired Edinburgh teacher’s secret life as a 70’s Jackie model – Edinburgh Evening News

The Edinburgh News has a piece by Liam Rudden on one of the models for the 1970s editions of Jackie, who went on to be a teacher and is now retried. The item comes with Jackie: The Musical now on tour – it’s currently on in Brighton

Millions of girls swooned over Ian Deacon in the 1970s. The retired teacher, a familiar face to pupils and parents at a number of Capital primary schools, has a secret, you see.Before embarking on his teaching career at Sighthill Primary in 1973, he was cover model for Jackie, the iconic girls’ magazine that no 70s teenager worth their flares would be without.

Memories of his modelling days came flooding back when it was announced Jackie: The Musical would be touring to The King’s.

“The Jackie thing seems to recur every five years ,for some reason or other,” he laughs, “but then I suppose the magazine was such a big thing for women of a certain age, it is now a treasured memory.”

• Read the full story by Liam Rudden: Retired Edinburgh teacher’s secret life as a 70’s Jackie model – Edinburgh Evening News

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